Experts believe that prenatal exposure to ________ is the leading known cause of mental retardation in the United States
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
alcohol
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The term affect is MOST nearly synonymous with ______.
a. emotion b. personality c. motivation d. cognition
On average, children demonstrate their first stranger anxiety at around 8 months of age
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Why is it so difficult to create a truly global measure of personality?
a. Because the different languages in different cultures do not always have words that can be translated equivalently and thus there is no way to measure personality uniformly across cultures. b. Because there are fundamental differences in the way Western and non-Western cultures understand personality that are influenced by various cultural factors. c. Because concepts like self-efficacy, unconditional positive regard, and reciprocal determinism have been found to have no statistical validity in any culture outside of the United States of America. d. Because the theories of Sigmund Freud created such a backlash against American personality theorists in the early 1900s that there has been no reconciliation of theories from different cultures.
Research suggests that for an adult, the loss of a parent is
A. more difficult to deal with for women than for men B. upsetting, but in some ways expected and therefore tends to be easier to deal with than the death of a child or of a spouse. C. typically the most difficult type of loss with which to cope. D. characterized by anger but not guilt.